Re: removal of a program/module
On the 16/01/2011 19:55, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
>> On the 16/01/2011 14:13, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to remove a program/module. As I have probably played
>>> around with it too often
>>> I cannot get rid of it.
>>> Now, whenever I try to install another program, I get the message
>>>
>>> "texlive-lang-cyrillic: subprocess post-removal script returned error
>>> exit status 1"
>>>
>>> and nothing is installed.
>>> Even when I ask synaptic to only remove that module I get the same
>>> message.
>>>
>>> What do I have to do to remove the module?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ls /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep texlive-lang-cyrillic
>>
>> should give you a list off pre/post install scripts, since the message
>> talks about post-removal look at the script ending in ".postrm" and see
>> if you can find what's going wrong in the script (looking to remove
>> non-existent directory ?).
>> If you can't find what's wrong with the script you can move it aside and
>> purge the package again, but be aware that any necessary action which
>> should have been performed by the ".postrm" script will no happen,
>> potentially leaving unwanted stuff in your system.
>>
>> Also have a look at the bugs for this package, this may already be a
>> known issue.
>>
>>
>>
> With the command you posted I found the various scripts for
> texlive-lang-cyrillic.
> I tried to find out where ...postrm had a problem but I did not succeed
> (did'nt try too much).
> So I "removed" .postrm by renaming it and called Synaptic again to
> remove this package:
> Success! It disappeared and I hope I never see it again.
> Now installations work again.
>
> Thank you for your fast help.
>
Glad it helped, but now cyrillic language is probably still registered
in your texlive installation, since the postrm script is supposed to do
some clean-up there after texlive-lang-cyrillic is removed. A good move
if you can't identify what went wrong in the script would be to check
your texlive install (maybe "dpkg-reconfigure" texlive-base and
texlive-common at least), then reinstall/purge texlive-lang-cyrillic.
Now you know the workaround if it goes ashtray again, and if it works it
may spare you some problems later on when you'll have forgotten about
the incident.
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